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Treyarch co-founder pleads guilty to grounding firefighting plane with drone during LA wildfires

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Akemann flew the drone at least 2,500 meters (more than 1.5 miles) toward the fire and lost sight of the drone.
Akemann's defense attorneys say he is "deeply sorry" for the incident in a separate statement, although bring up "a number of mitigating factors," write Eurogamer, "including the supposed failure of a geo fencing safeguard feature on Akemann’s DJI Drone".
This is reckless as hell. Any drone operator knows one of the number 1 rules for recreational (and even commercial pilots unless a permit is obtained) is MAINTAIN LINE OF SIGHT
He should also get his license revoked aswell as the normal sentencing
- I glued reflective stripes to my drone to make it more visible, for two reasons: Making it easier to see it by me and others so that people would never think I was secretly filming them.
Put that motherfucker in prison.
- People always forget that costs us money. Unless he's a continuing risk to others, let's just cost him money.
  
  The only way to strike the rich is to take away what they can't buy. They can't buy more time, so that's one of the only ways to make a lesson stick.
  And if you're still worried about cost just do jailtime and a fine to cover incarceration.
  
  Fuck that noise. They’d put a poor person in prison without thinking twice.
  Otherwise it’s just him paying a fee to be a prick.
  FWIW I’d be ok with publicly executing him instead, but I suspect that won’t be a popular opinion.
"Deeply sorry" rings false when it is followed by all the ~~reasons~~ excuses why he shouldn't face the consequences.
150hrs community service and 65k to repair the plane isn't enough. Some cost of the damages as a result of the plane being out of service would better suffice. No idea what that would reasonably be however, or how to measure that.
Oh wow - our legal system CAN react this quickly. That's good to know, as we watch Washington burn to a crisp while federal judges and congresspeople do... uh....
- Well, this guilty person stood up, plead guilty, and accepted the sentencing.
  That is the key difference. People who will never admit fault or guilt will invariably delay the end of the trial and resulting sentence.
What an idiot

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